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" I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. "
A History of England: During the Reign of George the Third - Page 258
by William Massey - 1855
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Representative Statesmen: Political Studies, Volume 1

Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - 418 pages
...to submit to be slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points with law cases and Acts of Parliament, with the Statute Book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of Liberty—but for the defence of Liberty...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1880 - 552 pages
...to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty : if I had, I myself would...
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Pioneer Collections, Volume 3

1881 - 744 pages
...suits before the justice court. He did not go into the courtroom "armed at all points with law cases, with the statute-book doubled down in dog's ears," to defend the cause of his client, but went in relying on his general knowledge of the law, and on his ready talent and shrewdness...
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Essays in History and Biography: Including the Defence of Mary Stuart

Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 378 pages
...in the pride of his integrity, scorned all meanness, and baseness, and trickery. " I come not here armed at all points with law cases and Acts of Parliament, with the statute-book doubled down in dogs'-ears, to defend the cause of liberty," he exclaimed, with fine scorn, in answer to Grenville's...
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History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the ..., Volume 3

George Bancroft - 1883 - 524 pages
...voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would be fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. " I come not here armed at all points with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute-book doubled down in dogs' ears, to defend the cause of liberty ; if I had, I would myself have cited the two cases of Chester...
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Essays in history and biography

Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 374 pages
...in the pride of his integrity, scorned all meanness, and baseness, and trickery. " I come not here armed at all points with law cases and Acts of Parliament, with tJie statute-book doubled down in dogs'-ears, to defend the cause of liberty," he exclaimed, with fine...
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British Eloquence, Volume 1

Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - 1884 - 360 pages
...to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. If I had, I myself would have...
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Representative British Orations: With Introductions and ..., Volume 1

Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 pages
...to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. If I had, I myself would have...
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Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund Burke

Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 346 pages
...to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. If I had, I myself would have...
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Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund Burke

Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 340 pages
...to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. If I had, I myself would have...
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